From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel@acm.org)
Date: Sat Nov 10 2001 - 16:35:20 CST
In <200111072325.SAA32467@darkstar.prodigy.com>, on 11/07/2001
at 06:25 PM, davidsen@prodigy.com (Bill Davidsen) said:
>This is my feeling as well. It seems to me that there are two goals
>here, which is why it is not being resolved.
>First, there is the goal of having an invariant message-id to put in
>URLs and to be associated with the latest version of a FAQ or such.
I'd modify that to give the news client precedence over the web
browser: the first goal should be to provide a mechanism for the news
reader to obtain the most recent version, and possibly to retrieve
explicit older versions. The ability to use the id in a URL is, IMHO,
less important.
>Second is the ability to change what what was originally posted in
>some way invisible to the reader, such that no reader can easily
>prove that the original post ever existed.
I don't see that as a goal, and certainly not as a legitimate goal.
I'd put it in the category of collateral damage.
>I would also like any solution to address security,
I concur.
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